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The Penalty

by: Wallace Worsley

Publication date: 1920

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: Feature Films, Silent films, Lon Chaney, Wallace Worsley, Gouverneur Morris

Publisher: Samuel Goldwyn

Item Size: 1.3G

Lon Chaney plays Blizzard, a deranged psychopath scarred by the childhood operation where a young doctor mistakingly amputated both of his legs. Hellbent on revenge Blizzard becomes a master criminal. This is one of Lon Chaney's most famous non-horror roles.

This is copied from video mastered off a well worn home movie print.

Contact Information: <a href=http://www.archive.org/details/TheVideoCellarCollection>The Video Cellar</a>

Addeddate: 2010-10-02 10:43:22

Color: B/W

Director: Wallace Worsley

Ia_orig__runtime: 91 minutes 10 seconds

Identifier: ThePenalty

Run time: 1:31:10

Sound: silent

Year: 1920

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Reviewer: Adam R - - January 12, 2015
Subject: Superb Melodrama

One of the highlights of Chaney's screen career, this sharp little drama sees him as a vengeful mobster, bitter after the amputation of his legs as a child, ...

Reviewer: sciwriter - - December 13, 2010
Subject: masterpeice

Eliminates Cheney's Phantom stereotype.

Reviewer: mikelangworthy - - December 13, 2010
Subject: maineatticus

I think he meant, "in the movie"

Reviewer: maineatticus - November 4, 2010
Subject: Just to set the record straight....

Lon Cheney never had his arms amputated. In the movie, "The Unknown", a man, Peter Dismuki, who was born with no arms, doubled for Lon Cheney in some of ...

Reviewer: bearpuf - - October 5, 2010 (edited)
Subject: Once Seen Not to Be Forgotten

Lon Chaney deserves the accolades for his amazing performances. This is one of them in terms of both his maniacal facials as well as the 'stumps' he fabricated ...

Reviewer: Tyler J. Anderson - - October 4, 2010
Subject: The Unknown

No it is unfortunately still under copyright.

Reviewer: Freddie Jaye - October 4, 2010
Subject: "The Unknown"

The above-named film--in which Chaney deliberately has his arms amputated after working as an armless knife-thrower in a carnival (it's complicated--could ...

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